Student Nikita had 20 lash wounds on his legs after 'punishment' from female physical education teacher.
Slava, aged 9, had miraculous escape after metal handle somehow pierced his rib cage.
Yulia, 36, rescued sons and grandmother at the cost of her own life.
US Paralympic star on emotional journey back to her roots to meet the parents who gave her up for adoption.
Deaths - and attempts - may be linked to barbaric 'games' encouraging young people to take their own lives.
The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.
Viktoria Adaeva went out to play on an ice slide before climbing onto a nearby 'turtle' also sculpted of ice.
Experts to check remains uncovered during road building excavations close to Tit-Ary in Khangalassky district.
More than eighty rescue workers and a helicopter are involved in the hunt for the boys in sub-zero temperatures.
The fatal accident was some 200km east of Tyumen in Siberia when an oncoming car struck a 1970 Chevrolet C10 driven by Emma Wilkinson, 47.